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I Was Very Disappointed In The Way This Contract Was negotiated You Are supposed To negotiate Good Terms For All Members, I Feel This Was Not. And To Throw More Dirt In The Wound Not All Members Who Are Affected By This Contract They Did Not Get Their Say Like They Should. I Did Not Get My Say And Am Very Angered By The Ones Who Are Representing Us. Please renegotiating This Contract. Especially The Health benefits

Once again instead of being there for the members Hoffa & Hall take the sellout route.. What we need to do is cut Hoffa off from buying votes in the hubs from people who won't be here through the a contract.. Hoffa & Hall are like most politicians they go to the highest bidder which in this case is UPS.. If we don't get Hoffa out there we are gonna end up with his bed mate Hall.. After we vote in a good contract lets keep this momenteum going to run those idiots out of office..

I am a teamster in the local 480 .I was told today 7.11.13 that the contract was passed that like only 556 out of 2000 somethin members voted is this true?im as mad as hell if it is .i voted hell no! Local 480 Nashville ,TN

Tell me where, in this hole-laiden language that was "won" by our fearless leaders, are there any substantial gains for workers that work for a company that made incredible gains, amidst a faltering economy?

There are none. For every "gain" that anyone can list, I can list 5 losses (aka givebacks). We can't just list the gains and say it was "successful", while we ignoring the great losses.

The recurring issues I've been fighting for for over 20 years, well, NOT ONE of those issues has been settled. Not one. And these are basic issues, such as supervisors working, seniority, etc - rudimentary things that need to be settled once and for all, so that we can move on to even larger issues.

For our leaders to then take it one step further and sell our healthcare down the river, all the while saying that we "won't pay $90, we won't pay $9, we won't pay 9 cents" for our healthcare is ludicrous. I encourage that if you have to pay more than 9 cents for your healthcare at any point, send the Teamsters a bill for the difference, and include that quote at the top of your "invoice". It's what I'm going to do.

Then to "bargain" for the harassment language - really? I'm still trying to figure out just how long we spent "bargaining" for that ridiculous language. My understanding was that since the union came out prior to negotiations and said that they wouldn't move forward until supervisor harassment was addressed, well, I thought it was a fairly important issue. I encourage you to look at the language and see if you think the harassment language seems like something that was covered in detail, with great work.

Settling is not the same as negotiating. Our leadership SETTLED, hoping that a small number of workers would vote, betting that the larger percentage of those votes would be "yes" votes.

People aren't stupid and they're catching on. The truth can set people free, which is why our leadership is caught between a rock and a hard place. I, for one, don't think they've been truthful. In fact, they've lied to us multiple times.

Get back to the bargaining table and remember, YOU WORK FOR US.

Stop worrying about getting new members and take care of the ones you already have, and your membership will grow without you having to push.

We voted NO, but now it's silent. You can hear a rain drop hit the floor so to speak. I'm not sure why we didn't have another one on the table to counter with a NO vote. Talk about being unprepared. This is how you negotiate, you don't take the first offer.....Plus there are a ton of rumors flying around and no one really knows what to expect after 7-31-13. I feel like the union sold us out anyway.